tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post2546098793715079317..comments2024-02-18T23:27:55.993-06:00Comments on the Madness of the Combat Medic: Far from the Home I love.The Mad Medichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16227573604389667896noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post-50246375872083065722012-08-13T11:43:00.122-05:002012-08-13T11:43:00.122-05:00Thank you for your service.
It saddens me to thi...Thank you for your service. <br /><br />It saddens me to think you believe you can't fight here. There's no physical violence to be performed but there's certainly a fight. <br /><br />Consider this:<br />For non-professionals, there's a certain number of hours that it's reasonable to expect to be devoted to the civic task of the citizen, to keep your eyes open, judge performance for elections, and petition in between to make things better. Think on it and pick a number of hours per week, then read the next line. <br /><br />My experience is that people pick an number between 1-5 and it's heavily weighted towards the low end of the distribution. <br /><br />Now whatever number that you picked, consider the size of the task. You have to oversee the $4T federal government, your state government, generally a county government, very often a local government, and a whole mess of boards, committees, and special districts all of which can tax and regulate and spend wisely or foolishly. Realistically, can a citizen do that all in the hours you picked all on his own? Nobody thinks so. <br /><br />But the job *can* be done. The tools *have* been developed. You can find them in corporate offices nearly everywhere in big business. They're called business intelligence. You can find them in the engineering standards committees under the title Web 3.0 or Semantic Web. <br /><br />If we don't close the gap between the task at hand and ordinary citizen capacity to oversee, the republic is through. It can be done and I think we have the time to do it but it is going to take a lot of work. TMLutashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12033938954514865135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903369978904506414.post-28332290572136096192012-08-12T16:17:54.168-05:002012-08-12T16:17:54.168-05:00Any person who has served in a war zone and comes ...Any person who has served in a war zone and comes home realizes what a blessing this country is and how fortunate we are to live in this beautiful country. What I can't understand is how painfully stupid people are when it comes to politics. People don't investigate the claims the political parties put out. We are going through a period in our history where we are at a tipping point and I believe people sense that. Liberalism without common fiscal sense or conservatism without compassion are both bad options. Where are the bold leaders that are willing to tell us the truth and are willing to explain that there is really nothing that is free there always is a cost.Kbobnoreply@blogger.com